Ian Bloom
CEO at Manifold Valley
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Top SchoolIan Bloom is a cross-disciplinary founder and CEO who melds deep low-level programming chops with cinematic craft to lead Manifold Valley, an ML lab applying machine learning to film and game production. A lifelong graphics programmer who built a rendering engine in high school and grew up around a mechanical engineering startup, he favors strongly typed functional languages like Haskell and has hands-on experience with OpenCL. Though his career has centered on cinematography—shooting over a dozen feature films and countless commercials—he translates that production-first sensibility into technology and team processes that enable high-performance capture and actor-friendly workflows. With an academic foundation in math, physics, and cinematography, Ian sits at the intersection of art, algorithms, and systems engineering. His work is notable for bringing “close-to-the-metal” algorithm design into practical ML tools for creative industries.
9 years of coding experience
Associate of Arts - AA, Math and Physics, Associate of Arts - AA, Math and Physics at Deep Springs CollegeBachelor of Fine Arts - BFA, Cinematography and Film/Video Production, Bachelor of Fine Arts - BFA, Cinematography and Film/Video Production at University of North Carolina School of the Arts
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Github Skills (31)
rasterizer10
curve10
servant9
hackage9
haskell7
haskell-ffi7
cuda6
opencl6
futhark5
gpu5
gpgpu5
parallel4
hpc4
gpu-programming4
file-parser4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
ianmbloom/gudni
Feb 2019 - Oct 2021
Haskell-centric Fast Accurate Curve Rasterizer
Contributions:185 commits, 21 PRs, 105 pushes in 2 years 8 months
haskellcurveservantrasterizerhackage
manifoldvalley/compdata
Nov 2022 - Apr 2024
Haskell library implementing "Data Types a la Carte"
Contributions:8 PRs, 7 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 5 months
cartehaskell-libraryhaskelldata-types
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